TDL Organizations: Global Insight

Global Insight, Inc. , formed in May 2001, is the world’s largest and oldest economic forecasting firm. Global Insight was created by the merger of DRI, founded as Data Resources, Inc. in 1968 and WEFA, founded in 1963 as Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates to provide quantitative economic research information to business and government agencies. Still active in an advisory capacity to the firm is the original founder of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Lawrence R. Klein, the 1980 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Global Insight operates throughout the world with 16 offices in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.   Global Insight now has over 3600 clients worldwide for economic information products and consulting.